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\n\tRight before the Eagles<\/a> played the final encore of their two-year, 109-date History of the Eagles tour in July 2015, Glenn Frey walked up to guitarist Bernie Leadon<\/a> and gave him a big hug. Leadon is the band\u2019s founding guitarist, and co-writer of many of their early songs, including \u201cWitchy Woman,\u201d<\/a> but he left in 1975 following an infamous backstage fight where he poured a beer on Frey\u2019s head. And now here they were embracing following their first tour together in 40 years.<\/p>\n \n\t\u201cHe said, \u2018It\u2019s been great having you out here, and it\u2019s not over,’\u201d says Leadon. \u201cAnd then he hugged me again and repeated it. We then walked onstage and played the last encore of the tour.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tIn a better world, this would have marked the beginning of a new chapter of Eagles history where all the original members returned to the group for a series of albums and tours over the past decade. In this world, Frey died<\/a> from pneumonia just six months later, and founding bassist Randy Meisner died<\/a> from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in 2023, having not toured with the band since his departure in 1977. Don Henley is now the only OG member still in the fold, though guitarist Joe Walsh and bassist Timothy B. Schmit have both been in the band since the Seventies.<\/p>\n \n\tLeadon has been on the sidelines throughout the last decade of Eagles history, but his time on the road with the group between 2013 and 2015 reignited something inside him. He began writing songs, including \u201cToo Many Memories,\u201d releasing next week, for the first time since his 2004 solo LP, Mirror.<\/em><\/p>\n \n\t\u201cToo Many Memories\u201d is a tender piano ballad about coming to terms with the past, and finding contentment in the present. \u201cToo many memories of another life,\u201d Leadon sings. \u201cToo many memories\/And it cuts like a knife.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tThe lyrics came to Leadon in a sudden flash about three years ago. \u201cI\u2019ve lived many lifetimes in one lifetime,\u201d he says. \u201cI\u2019ve lived in five or six different cities in America, on both coasts. I\u2019ve had a lot of different experiences. And the conclusion to the song is that I need to let it all go and melt like rising fog off the meadow. Ultimately, I do think we do have to let a lot of stuff go. We need to let resentments go.\u201d<\/p>\n